Joint Faculty Members
Sally Winkle
Contact information:
Women's and Gender Studies Director, 207 MON, 359.2409, swinkle@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- WMST 310, Issues in Women's Studies
- WMST 410, Feminist Theories
- GERM/HUMN 381, Racism and Nationalism in Central European Film
- GERM/HIST 382, 20th Century Germany: Culture, Political Conflict
- Gender, and National Identity
- GERM/HIST 383, Readings/Discussions of 20th Century Germany
- GERM 305, German Conversation
- GERM 330, Selections of German Writings
Research interests:
Gender and Sexuality in German film, German women writers of the 18th
and 19th centuries, Women's Studies at the university, Dealing with the
Nazi past in German film.
Additional information:
Sally Winkle has been Director of Women's and Gender Studies at EWU
since 1998. She is joint faculty of Women's and Gender Studies and
Modern Languages and Literatures.
Elizabeth A. Kissling, Ph.D.
Contact information:
Communication Studies/Women's and Gender Studies, 229 COM, 359.2875, ekissling@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- WMST 490: Senior Capstone in Women's and Gender Studies
- CMST/WMST 414: Gender & Communication
- CMST/WMST 419: Sex, Sexuality, and Communication
- CMST 452: Cultural Studies
- CMST 490: Senior Capstone in Communication
- CMST 502: Contemporary Trends in Communication Research
- CMST 522: Research Design & Analysis II
- CMST 569: Thesis Preparation Workshop
- CSBS 331: Documents-based Research Methods
Research interests:
Feminist cultural studies; focus on media representations of gender and body, especially as they relate to women's health and sexuality
Additional information:
Web site: http://drkissling.com
Book: http://capitalizingonthecurse.com
Mimi Marinucci
Philosophy/Women's and Gender Studies, 359.6026, 266 PAT, mmarinucci@mail.ewu.edu
Rachel Schneider
Contact information:
Justice Studies/Sociology/Women's and Gender Studies, 314 PAT, 359.7876, rschneider@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Criminology
- Family Violence
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Introdcution to Sociology
- Introduction to Women's Studies/li>
- Sex and Gender
- Sociology of the Family
- Women in Prison
Research interests:
Sociology of gender, violence against women, women in prison, family violence and battered women who kill, sociology of the family, and qualitative methods
Affiliated Faculty Members
Deirdre Almeida
Contact information:
American Indian Studies, 359.2441, 002 IEC, dalmeida@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Course focus is on Native American and Indigenous social, political, historical and educational topics and concerns
- Contemporary Indigenous Women
- Contemporary Indian Issues
- Indigenous Education
Research interests:
Indigenous women and their historical and contemporary roles within their nations and communities, Indigenous education with an emphasis on teacher preparation and a focus on cultural and language revitalization and preservation, and education as atool for decolonization of Indigenous peoples.
Additional information:
Serves as the Director for the American Indian Studies Program at EWU and prior to coming Eastern was a faculty at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst where she was an affiliated faculty with the Women's Studies Departments at UMass and mount Holyoke College
Lisa Avery
Contact information:
Social Work, 359.2277, 203 SNR, lavery@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Special Projects - Family Violence (WGST)
- International Social Work (SOWK)
- Research Methods (SOWK)
- Planning for Community Based Projects (SOWK)
- Data Analysis (SOWK)
Research interests:
Applied projects related to the needs of children and families
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x19186.xml
Karen Carlberg
Contact information:
Biology, 359.2388, 258 SCI, kcarlberg@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- BIOL/WMST 318 Biology of Women
- BIOL 332 Human Neuromuscular & Skeletal Systems
- BIOL 334 Human Visceral & Regulatory Systems
- BIOL 343 Biology of Aging
- BIOL 490 Senior Capstone/Animal Physiology
Research interests:
Effects of exercise on endocrine and reproductive systems
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x16859.xml
Robert Dean
Contact information:
History, 359.7953, 200 PAT, rdean@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Introduction to Historiography, graduate colloquium
- History capstone: American masculinities, undergraduate credit
- The American Experience, undergraduate credit
- U.S. Foreign Relations, 1898-present, upper division undergraduate credit
- U.S. History, 1945-present, upper division undergraduate credit
- Contemporary America, graduate colloquium
- Documents-based social science research methods, upper division undergraduate seminar
- Gender and the Century of Total War, upper division/graduate credit
Research interests:
20th Century U.S. History, Cultural History, Gender
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x32946.xml and http://www.ewu.edu/x17416.xml
Kristin Edquist
Contact information:
Government, 359.7460, 208 PAT, kedquist@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Introduction to Comparative Politics
- Introduction to International Politics
- International Organization(s)
- West European Politics
- Women, Gender, and European Politics
- Senior Capstone Seminar on Globalization
- Global Politics of States & Markets
- Advanced Industrial Societies
- Transnationalism
Research interests:
Governance, globalization, state-non-state relations through European Union social policy, and critical applications of international relations theory to mental health policy
Nancy Hathaway
Contact information:
Art, 359.7070, 140 ART, nhathaway@mail.ewu.edu
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x23633.xml
Kathleen Huttenmaier
Contact information:
History, 359.4824, 200 PAT, k.huttenmaier@mail.ewu.edu
Research interests:
Women's History, Social Studies Education
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x17428.xml
Kayleen Islam-Zwart
Contact information:
Psychology, 359.2380, 151 MAR, kislamzwart@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Psychology of Women
- Abnormal Psychology
- Psychology and the Legal System
- Cognitive Assessment
- Senior Capstone
Research interests:
Adjustment to Incarceration, Female Offenders, Malingering, Cognitive and
Neuropsychological Evaluation
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x6193.xml
Golie Jansen
Contact information:
Social Work, 359.6487, 203 SNR, gjansen@mail.ewu.edu
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x19211.xml
Nancy Nelson
Contact information:
African American Education Director, 359.6150, 204 MON, nancy.nelson@mail.ewu.edu
Doug Orr
Contact information:
Economics, 359.2424, 300 PAT, dorr@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- ECON 200 Introduction to Microeconomics (ECON 300 as a night class)
- ECON 201 Introduction to Macroeconomics (ECON 301 as a night class)
- ECON 421 Labor Economics
- ECON 427 Economics of Poverty
Research interests:
Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, Urban and Regional, Political Economy, Labor Economics
Additional information:
Web site: http://www.ewu.edu/x6947.xml
Lavona Reeves
English, 359.7060, 250 PAT, lreeves@mail.ewu.edu
Beth Torgerson
English, 359.6038, 250 PAT, btorgerson@mail.ewu.edu
Nancy Wainwright
Accounting & Information Services, 359.7067, 316 KGS, nwainwright@mail.ewu.edu
Guillermina Walas
Modern Languages & Literatures, 359.7955, 350 PAT, gwalas@mail.ewu.edu
Sue Wright
Sociology & Criminal Justice, 359.4817, 314 PAT, swright@mail.ewu.edu
Participating Faculty Members
Garcia Armand
History, 359.2337, 200 PAT
Lanny Devuono
Contact information:
Art, 359.6996, 140 ART, ldevuono@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Contemporary Art (a course on contemporary art and theory)
- Painting
- Drawing
- Life Drawing
- Color
- Art in the Humanities (a survey course on visual art)
Research interests:
Writing essays and reviews on contemporary art under the name of Frances Devuono; being a contributing editor for Artweek magazine; being an artist, represented by Circa Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Froelick Gallery (Portland, OR) and Lorinda Knight Gallery (Spokane, WA)
Lori Geddes
Economics, 359.7044, 300 PAT, lgeddes@mail.ewu.edu
Maria Hernandez-Peck
Social Work, 359.6479, 203 SNR, mpeck@mail.ewu.edu
Gail Hicks
Psychology, 359.6157, 151 MAR, ghicks@mail.ewu.edu
Haideh Lightfoot
Biology, 359.2866, 258 SCI, hlightfoot@mail.ewu.edu
Karen McKinney
McNair Scholars Program, 359.2471, 107 MON, kmckinney@mail.ewu.edu
Robin Pickering
Contact information:
Physical Education Health and Recreation, 359.4308, 200 PEB, rpickering@mail.ewu.edu
Courses taught:
- Personal and Community Health
- Drugs, Society, and Human Behavior
- International Health
- Gerontology
- Health Capstone
- Sexuality Education in Schools and the Community
- Rythms and Games
- Women's Health Issues
- Health Promotion Program Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation
Research interests:
Postpartum weight retention, the effect of social support on weight loss
Heather Robinson
Communication Studies, 229 COM
Julia Smith
Anthropology, 359.7958, 103 ISL, jsmith4@mail.ewu.edu
Jennifer Thomson
Geology, 359.7478, 130 SCI, http://www.ewu.edu/x17131.xml, jthomson@mail.ewu.edu
Stacy Warren
Geography/Anthropology, 359.7962, 103 ISL, swarren@mail.ewu.edu
Jenna Williams
English and Africana Studies, 359.6635, 250 PAT, jenna.williams@mail.ewu.edu
Other Women's and Gender Studies Staff
Carol Vines
Women's Center Manager, 359.2898, 207F MON, cvines@mail.ewu.edu
Christi Wavada
Program Assistant, 359.2847, 207J MON, cwavada2@mail.ewu.edu
